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626 FLIGHT, 14 October I960 SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Under-Secretary Visiting CanadaN EXT month the Under-Secretary ofState for Air, Mr. W. J. Taylor, MP, is going to Ottawa to attend the biennialmeeting (on November 21) of the Air Cadet League of Canada. He is staying for twoweeks, during which he will also visit RCAF units. Mr Taylor has visited Canadatwice since the war in connection with the cadet exchange visit scheme, and he hasbeen made an honorary life member of the Air Cadet League there. Singapore Schedule XJASTINGS aircraft of No 48 Sqn,•H based at Singapore, are now running scheduled freight services between Christ-mas Island and Honolulu. Previously, Transport Command aircraft had flownout to Christmas Island via £1 Adem, Aden and Singapore. This involved crews in atrip of some 20,000 miles. The Hastings flying from Changi will need to fly onlyhalf that distance. A twice-weekly schedule is being maintained, using twoHastings. Shackletons on Watch TN the recent NATO exercises under theA comprehensive title FALLEX 60, all the squadrons of Coastal Command wereengaged, from Gibraltar to Northern Ire- land and Scotland. An example of whatthis involved for an individual crew may be seen in the case of Sqn Ldr CharlesFountain and his crew of No 201 Sqn operating from St Mawgan in Cornwall.Their part in the exercise concerned First Watch and Second Watch, the convoy andshipping protection exercises in the Channel and South-West approaches. Between September 22 and 29 the crewheaded by Sqn Ldr Fountain flew a total of 45hr in four sorties of 11 or ll|hr dura-tion each. Twenty-five hours of this flying were at night and 20 by day. During theseoperations the aircraft was engaged on distant and close support work and anti-submarine offensive sorties in the South- West approaches. No actual confirmed The No 201 Sqn crew referred to below. Back row (I .to r.) Sgt W. Burge, Fg Offs D. Jones and J. Wat- kins, Fit Lt P. Crowe, Sqn Ldr C. Fountain, Fg Off J. Green, M/Eng D. Bell, F/Sgt R. Powell, Sgt. I. Stewart-Rattray; front row: Sgt D. Kirkland and I M/Sig W. Morton sightings were made. This amount offlying was considered to be "about aver- age" for the squadron during the exercise.Sqn Ldr Fountain, who is 34, is "B" Flight commander. His crew consists ofFg Off John Green, 26, co-pilot; Fit Lt Peter Crowe, 33, and Fg Off JeffreyWatkins, DFC, 38, navigators; Fg Off David Jones, 26, AEO; and M/Sig Wil-liam Morton, 39, F/Sgt Robert Powell, 38, Sgts Dennis Kirkland, 25, Ian Stewart-Rattray, 22, and William Burge, 25, signallers; and M/Eng David Bell, 40,engineer. The aircraft flown by No 201 Sqn are MR.3s and during the exercise oneof them was detached to the Dutch base at Falkenburg. FALLEX 60 had a happy ending forSqn Ldr Fountain, who just after he had landed from his second trip learned thathis wife had presented him with a son. Praise for Bulwark CPEAKING last week of the changing*•* role of the Royal Marines, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr Ian Orr-Ewing)referred to the Navy's first commando carrier—saying that Bulwark, with its heli-copter-mounted RM commando, had already given a good account of herself.During the vessel's first exercises, off Libya, her helicopters had made 2,000 decklandings in five weeks—more than all the landings made at London's heliport during1959. The carrier's latest exploit had beento prove, in a series of exercises off Mom- basa, that night landings of commandoforces by helicopter were a practical proposition. IN BRIEF As a permanent Battle of Britain memorial,it is planned to carve the outlines of a Spitfire and Hurricane in the chalk hillside of SugarLoaf Hill, near Folkestone, Kent. The CFS Jet Provost team, led by Wg CdrKen Tapper, gave a display at Accra Airport for President Nkrumah of Ghana on October 6on his return home from the UN General Assembly. At the RAF Reserves Club annual generalmeeting on October 3, Mr B. W. Sanderson was elected chairman and Mr A. B. Reed vice-chairman. Sir Miles Thomas, the new president of the club, presided at the meeting. The next competition for the award of RAFscholarships under a scheme designed to offer opportunities to boys to secure cadetships inthe GD or technical branches will be held dur- ing February next year. Details are availablefrom the Air Ministry (ARl/s), Adastral House, Theobalds Road, London WC1. Entries for the first RAF art and handicraftsexhibition and competition include light air- craft and models of Russian aircraft. The exhi-bitions to be open to the public from October 20 to 26 (Sunday excepted) in theBoard of Trade building, Horse Guards Avenue, SW1, from 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.daily. A Sudanese, Ahmed Osman Hassenein, whofirst made the acquaintance of No 47 Sqn when they arrived in Khartoum in 1928 (when hewas 23), visited the squadron recently at RAF Abingdon. At the invitation of the stationcommander, Gp Capt P. C. Fletcher, and the CO of No 47 Sqn, he was invited to stay atAbingdon and before he left was presented with a squadron blazer badge and tie. High-level experience: left below, AVM V. E. Hancock, CAS-designate of the RAAF, about to depart on a demonstration flight at the Bell Helicopter Co plant during his recent visit to the US ("Flight," September 23). With him in a Ranger is Joe Mashman, Bell director of market development; and at the left is his escort officer Maj L. F. Donnelly, USAF. Right below, Air Marshal Sir Hector McGregor, AOC-in-C Fighter Command, in a Lightning 7.4 with Wg Cdr R. P. Beamont, English Electric chief test pilot. Sir Hector, visiting Warton, flew the aircraft at Ml.5 over the Irish Sea
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